you have to change the users and groups settings to allow local system administrator to login through gui,, it's in the users and groups options,, and tehn you can set the root password manually and login regulary
anyway,, try when you are in root mode through gui, not to install any programs manually by compiling them, you should do this from your regular user so the program settings work with your own user account but with root priviliges On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 8:27 PM, paul watt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > how do i change to root using the gui in 8.10? > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ubuntu Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ubuntulinux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
